Re: Why Python?

Just out of curiosity but why are our webapps written in Python and not
in Perl for example?
I have a feeling there is more Perl knowledge among infrastructure
specialists as there is Python.

The biggest is that most of the infrastructure people were already well
versed in Python. On the one hand its good to not commit yourself to
one technology. But, on the other hand, we've got 5 different
turbogears apps written by 4 people. And, to me, thats way better then
1 turbogears app one php app, one perl app, one ruby app, etc, written
by 4 people :-).
Since Python had already proved itself as a strong language in other
areas of our Operating System I think the community in general decided
to stick with it. We do have other apps not written in python but
pretty much all of our home grown apps are in python and I think, for
us, thats a good thing.